The exaxt population of the world is unknown but believed at about 6.2 billion; it continues in its unrelenting growth especially in developing countries. Worldwide famine has been postponed thanks to modern agricultural procedures, known as the Green...

Contraception Contraception (birth control) is the prevention of conception (pregnancy). In the United States, 60% of boys and 50% of girls between the ages of 15 and 19 are sexually active, yet only half of these adolescents use contraception the first...

Birth control, or contraception, is the use of physical barriers, timing, chemicals, or a combination of these methods to prevent pregnancy. While many methods have been designed for women's use, few are available to men. Abortion and the controversial...

Throughout history, men and women have looked for safe, reliable, convenient ways to prevent pregnancy. Some have been based on medical knowledge, but many have arisen from superstition and old wives' tales. However, one category of contraceptives,...

Birth control, sometimes synonymous with contraception, is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth. Contraception may refer specifically to...

* A male contraceptive pill could be on the market within five years, the Daily Mail reports September 29. American researchers discovered that the widely-prescribed high blood pressure drug Nifedipine has the side-effect of causing infertility. The drug is believed to build up...

BIRTH CONTROL Light motifs: Music video pro Jonathan Glazer conducts a moody symphony of shadows A willowy princess of the old-money Upper East Side must confront a 10-year-old boy who claims to be her dead husband in Birth, which itself inhabits a...

More than 40 women sued the makers of a popular birth-control patch Wednesday, claiming the contraceptive caused serious illnesses and at least one death. One lawsuit alleges that 43 women suffered from blood clots and other health ailments after taking...

The government is considering setting higher standards for birth control drugs used by millions, saying that newer pills appear to be less effective at preventing pregnancy than those approved decades ago.The Food and Drug Administration will ask a panel of experts Tuesday and Wednesday whether...

In the 21st century the problems regarding unsafe sex, unwanted pregnancy increasing sexual diseases has increased a lot. Teens of today do not think about the problems which they would face after having unsafe sex. They do not have complete knowledge of the hazards that follows them in future. To bring these precarious activities under control Contraceptives (birth control) was introduced.

A research paper on family planning in China and other Asian countries.

This essay discusses various birth control options, such as the pill, the patch, the Depro-Provera shot, and condoms. It includes brief discussions of how some of these options work, how they're taken, and potential side effects.